One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[constant2chatter]

There is another side to this, if JKR can enable peace through her
craft why not?  You know during W.W.II the government said a lot to
dehumanize the enemy so there would be less moral dilemma about
killing them (the enemy).  This I imagine went on both sides, at least
if we are to believe CNN broadcasts.  I moderate another group, I want
to share what I had to post today, we are a small 40 or so member
child friendly group.

A timely letter, OK here it is, I have been on our link sites and all
but the WB official site and JKR own site are discussing the Albus
Dumbledore is gay release and are not at all polite about it.  I
apologize about this already before I begin because I don't think it
belongs here, BUT JKR herself apparently said this on Larry King live
and it won't go away.  We have also lost 2 members,this week and I
don't think it is because we are not very active as we have never
been, so we as a group need to address this. We are all aware that
this is fiction; all of these charters are on paper no more alive than
Peter Pan.  For the life of me I can't figure out why she did this,
and for the record the story did not need sex.  Any kind of sex, and
for that matter, I thought it stood on its own as a right of passage
from,childhood to adult.  Certainly no one of the living has had more
problematic childhood than a psychopath trying to kill him at every
turn and an allied group to assist on command, and schoolwork that
could blow you up if you did it wrong.   I really thought Dumbledore
was more than a little fond of the school nurse.  First Dumbledore
coming out of the closet, really being thrown out by the author,
changes the story substantially, Dumbledore is the HEAD MASTER,of a
school, and he takes particular interest in Harry.  The Greeks thought
the most ideal love was between a teacher and his student, women were
just for procreation.  Well, guess what I am not an accent Greek and I
am not amused.  If anyone has noticed the Greek civilization ended
badly.  These books are no longer for young children, and you should
hear some of the questions I got at my house.  Now given that books
like the scarlet letter, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin,God of Small
Things by Arundhati Roy, Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, July
People by Nadine Gordimer, and some smutty Japanese literature were on
the reading list in the high school my oldest daughter attended, by
that comparison Harry Potter is quite tame.  However, as a fan I feel
betrayed because she started the series to get YOUNG children,to read,
especially boys.  Even the choice bothers me; I could have seen
Gildaroy Lockheart as gay even Hoarse Slug horn But Dumbledore, What
purpose did that serve?  The editor was right the story was better
without all of this, Universal is spending about a billion dollars to
build Hogwarts and Hogmead village, they have a court case, it is not
family entertainment anymore.  I wonder how WB is going to handle this
in the movies, carefully I hope.  It just goes on and on, a few
careless words and whatever good she did with the series destroyed.  I
am so pissed.  Thanks, Constant


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> > parents, their religion, their culture, and often because they have 
> > read something that presents ideas that are different than what 
> > their parents, religion, and culture have tired to instill in them. 
> > Now I hear you thinking, well then it is good that DD is gay. No it 
> > isn’t, if the books do not get past the sensors, be it government, 
> > school or parents.
> 
> Celoneth:
> Sorry just had to address this one point - why does JKR or any other
> author have to shoulder the responsibility of changing the attitudes
> of the world? Radio Free Europe was a government program - JKR is a
> private citizen with no duty to make sure that everyone reads the
> books and gets the proper messages. They're books not propoganda
> tools, not tools of the military or the government. Nor do I think
> that the books were an attempt by JKR to evangelise her readers to her
> views or Christianity or anything else - they're fictional books, made
> for people to enjoy and read. All books have a message, some better
> than others - some people agree with the messages of a book, some wont
> - some will enjoy it, some will find it horribly offensive - its the
> nature of literature. A lot of people won't read certain books and its
> their right to not read them, but its still the author's right to
> write them as they wish to.
> 
> I just have a huge problem with the suggestion that authors need to
> consider what they write in terms of a larger geo-political context,
> to be sneaky to get past censors in other states and to present their
> message to readers in those states. That is the job of governments and
> international organisations, not of authors or artists unless they
> choose to willingly undertake such a job.
> Celoneth
>